Surrender.

The word caught me by surprise. Maybe I hadn’t heard it in some time, perhaps because “letting go” is more often the phrase I might use or hear. But, as I have often written, letting go is a challenge for me and there’s something about that phrase that I guess never quite worked for me.

But surrender is one I haven’t use often even though they essentially mean the same thing to me.

And yet when I look at this photo, taken in June 2023 in Bali, surrender comes to mind. And it works.

Maybe our word choices affect how we react to what it is we need to do to move forward, make change, challenge ourselves.

In my long list of ways to keep moving myself forward and shed what holds me back, I’m going to experiment. When I need a reminder, I’m going to think of this photo and the word surrender. Maybe it’ll bring the little change I need propel myself to where I want to be